John Trapp on Hosea 11:2

Verſe 2. As they called them,] i. e. As the Prophets and Miniſters (whoſe names are here concealed, that the Word onely may be glorified, as Acts 13.48.) called to them, to come out of ſpirituall Egypt, out of darkneſſe to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they might receive forgiveneſſe of ſinnes, and inheritance among the Saints, by faith that is in Chriſt, Act. 26.18.

ſo they went from them:] They went a contrary way, as the child Samuel, when God called him, ran to Eli: or rather as the wilfull Jews, when God would have gathered them, as the hen doth her chickens, they would not. When God called his naturall Son out of Egypt, he came preſently, Heb. 10.7. Pſal. 40.7, 8. not ſo his adopted ſonnes: for they turned upon him the back, and not the face, as Jer. 2.27. they refuſed to be reformed, they hated to be healed. See chap. 7.1. with the Note. Nay to make up the full meaſure of their ſins, and to heighten their contempt,

they ſacrificed unto Baalim, and burnt incenſe to graven images,] Quaſi agrè facturi Deo, as if they would deſpite God on purpoſe, and ſpit in his very face: commit the like villany in his preſence, as the Iriſh Rebels lately did, when they bound the husband to the bed-poſt, whiles they abuſed his wife before him. See the Notes on chap. 2. and almoſt on every chapter where their idolatry is cried out upon, and their extreme ingratitude.